Talking Communications, Riccardo Disqualification

by TastyJack Thursday, March 20, 2014 0 comments

As the years go by, we get more and more ways to communicate. When I was in primary school all we had was MSN messenger with all the custom names and emoticons. Then we started to get phones and SMS became popular, but still it was acceptable to call people. Growing older still, MySpace and Facebook came together adding to the length list of keeping up with your friends. Now we have whatsapp and snap chat. The list now is increasingly inexhaustible.

With all these ways to communicate there's now a million and one ways to offend someone due to some form of useless obscure etiquette.

These etiquette in a lot of ways restricts our ways to communicate essentially destroying the purpose of having so many forms of communication. When we can't ask someone how they are too often in a week, when we can't instantly reply, when every sentence needs to be crafted and re read; it is now easier to offend someone then it is to actually have a conversation with them. When you can't say what you really want them there is no point to all the forms of communications in the world if we can't use them.

Whatsapp got a new feature now, you can stop other people from seeing when you were last online. I mean god forbid, people, knowing that you've been online and read their message. Or haven't. When there's a prevalent need for such a feature there is something detracting from the purpose of communications. All these new forms of communications has turned what we say to a game of subtleties and niceties.

Riccardo was disqualified for from the Melbourne Grand Prix, as his fuel injection rate into his engine was too high. Don't get me wrong, I was disappointed as much as the next person. The reaction from the Australian public and the media was however, slightly more disappointing.

 I really don't understand, when people suggest that he shouldn't have been disqualified. He wasn't following the rules, some might say that he was down right cheating. If another drivers from another country was to do the same thing would the disgust at the decision have been so prevalent? I just find it a little hypocritical, that in a country which prides themselves on a "fair go" for all, we can still support Riccardo in such a way.

By all means, feel sympathetic and unhappy about the decision, but don't tell me it was the wrong decision. When you break the rules, you can't expect nothing to do be done about it.